Command Line Utility to split text file by number of lines

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I'm looking for an windows command line utility that can split files

by number of line. Most of them are by bytes... can anyone

recommend ? Thanks.
 
You could write your own or try this:







If you tell me what you want to do, I can do it for you and send

you by email. Send me a sample file and tell me how many lines in

each file and I will do it for you. Make sure the files are text

files not binary files because lines only apply to text files.



hth





dingdongdingding wrote:

>

> I'm looking for an windows command line utility that can split files

> by number of line. Most of them are by bytes... can anyone

> recommend ? Thanks.



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"dingdongdingding" wrote in message

news:85c44ac3-bb4f-4dbe-a629-c7ea09cd30c0@b33g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...

> I'm looking for an windows command line utility that can split files

> by number of line. Most of them are by bytes... can anyone

> recommend ? Thanks.



Your spec is a little vague but perhaps this batch file will ding the way

you want it to dong:

@echo off

set sName=d:\My Files\My Text File.txt

set iLines=30

echo.

if not exist "%sName%" (

echo File "%sName%" not found

goto :eof

)

set Scr="%temp%\TempVBS.vbs"

set VB=echo^>^>%Scr%

cd 1>nul 2>%Scr%

%VB% Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

%VB% Set oFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile("%sName%")

%VB% aFile = Split(oFile.ReadAll, VbCrLf)

%VB% oFile.Close

%VB% Set oOut1 = oFSO.CreateTextFile("%sName%" ^& ".1",True)

%VB% Set oOut2 = oFSO.CreateTextFile("%sName%" ^& ".2",True)

%VB% if %iLines% ^> ubound(aFile) then iLines = UBound(aFile)+1

%VB% For i = 0 To %iLines%-1

%VB% oOut1.WriteLine aFile(i)

%VB% Next

%VB% oOut1.Close

%VB% If UBound(aFile) ^>= %iLines% Then

%VB% For i = %iLines% To UBound(aFile)

%VB% oOut2.WriteLine aFile(i)

%VB% Next

%VB% End If

%VB% oOut2.Close

cscript //nologo %Scr%

rem del %Scr%

echo Data stored in "%sName%.1" and "%sName%.2"
 
On 05 Apr 2010, dingdongdingding wrote in

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:



> I'm looking for an windows command line utility that can split files

> by number of line. Most of them are by bytes... can anyone

> recommend ? Thanks.



There are Windows ports of the unix head, tail, and split utilities.

Some combination of those could probably be scripted to do what you

want.
 
Interesting. When I tested this, I got 2 files. 1st one with first n

lines. The 2nd one has the rest of the lines (> n lines insde).



On Apr 6, 5:05 pm, "Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:

> "dingdongdingding" wrote in message

>

> news:85c44ac3-bb4f-4dbe-a629-c7ea09cd30c0@b33g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...

>

> > I'm looking for an windows command line utility that can split files

> > by number of line.  Most of them are by bytes... can anyone

> > recommend ?  Thanks.

>

> Your spec is a little vague but perhaps this batch file will ding the way

> you want it to dong:

> @echo off

> set sName=d:\My Files\My Text File.txt

> set iLines=30

> echo.

> if not exist "%sName%" (

>   echo File "%sName%" not found

>   goto :eof

> )

> set Scr="%temp%\TempVBS.vbs"

> set VB=echo^>^>%Scr%

> cd 1>nul 2>%Scr%

> %VB% Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

> %VB% Set oFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile("%sName%")

> %VB% aFile = Split(oFile.ReadAll, VbCrLf)

> %VB% oFile.Close

> %VB% Set oOut1 = oFSO.CreateTextFile("%sName%" ^& ".1",True)

> %VB% Set oOut2 = oFSO.CreateTextFile("%sName%" ^& ".2",True)

> %VB% if %iLines% ^> ubound(aFile) then iLines = UBound(aFile)+1

> %VB% For i = 0 To %iLines%-1

> %VB%   oOut1.WriteLine aFile(i)

> %VB% Next

> %VB% oOut1.Close

> %VB% If UBound(aFile) ^>= %iLines% Then

> %VB%   For i = %iLines% To UBound(aFile)

> %VB%     oOut2.WriteLine aFile(i)

> %VB%   Next

> %VB% End If

> %VB% oOut2.Close

> cscript //nologo %Scr%

> rem del %Scr%

> echo Data stored in "%sName%.1" and "%sName%.2"
 
Unix has this split command. Can't find the windows equivalent.



On Apr 7, 12:31 am, Nil wrote:

> On 05 Apr 2010, dingdongdingding wrote in

> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

>

> > I'm looking for an windows command line utility that can split files

> > by number of line.  Most of them are by bytes... can anyone

> > recommend ?  Thanks.

>

> There are Windows ports of the unix head, tail, and split utilities.

> Some combination of those could probably be scripted to do what you

> want.
 
This is exactly the way I wrote it. As I said, your spec was somewhat vague

and allowed several interpretations.



"dingdongdingding" wrote in message

news:9cc8f67f-8704-4443-98e5-0001876ba705@z6g2000yqz.googlegroups.com...

> Interesting. When I tested this, I got 2 files. 1st one with first n

> lines. The 2nd one has the rest of the lines (> n lines insde).

>

> On Apr 6, 5:05 pm, "Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:

>> "dingdongdingding" wrote in message

>>

>> news:85c44ac3-bb4f-4dbe-a629-c7ea09cd30c0@b33g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...

>>

>> > I'm looking for an windows command line utility that can split files

>> > by number of line. Most of them are by bytes... can anyone

>> > recommend ? Thanks.

>>

>> Your spec is a little vague but perhaps this batch file will ding the way

>> you want it to dong:

>> @echo off

>> set sName=d:\My Files\My Text File.txt

>> set iLines=30

>> echo.

>> if not exist "%sName%" (

>> echo File "%sName%" not found

>> goto :eof

>> )

>> set Scr="%temp%\TempVBS.vbs"

>> set VB=echo^>^>%Scr%

>> cd 1>nul 2>%Scr%

>> %VB% Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

>> %VB% Set oFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile("%sName%")

>> %VB% aFile = Split(oFile.ReadAll, VbCrLf)

>> %VB% oFile.Close

>> %VB% Set oOut1 = oFSO.CreateTextFile("%sName%" ^& ".1",True)

>> %VB% Set oOut2 = oFSO.CreateTextFile("%sName%" ^& ".2",True)

>> %VB% if %iLines% ^> ubound(aFile) then iLines = UBound(aFile)+1

>> %VB% For i = 0 To %iLines%-1

>> %VB% oOut1.WriteLine aFile(i)

>> %VB% Next

>> %VB% oOut1.Close

>> %VB% If UBound(aFile) ^>= %iLines% Then

>> %VB% For i = %iLines% To UBound(aFile)

>> %VB% oOut2.WriteLine aFile(i)

>> %VB% Next

>> %VB% End If

>> %VB% oOut2.Close

>> cscript //nologo %Scr%

>> rem del %Scr%

>> echo Data stored in "%sName%.1" and "%sName%.2"

>
 
Thanks. I think the split from http://openetwork.com/berk.html is good

for me.



Thanks everybody !



On Apr 7, 11:46 pm, Nil wrote:

> On 06 Apr 2010, dingdongdingding wrote

> in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

>

> > Unix has this split command.  Can't find the windows equivalent.

>

> Here's two:

>

> http://openetwork.com/berk.html

>

> http://www.softwareonline.org/winxs42.html

>

> I've seen others. It often comes in a bundle with a bunch of other unix

> utilities.
 
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